In practice we're seeing the biggest waves of development in years. r/emacs gets daily, daily! announcements of new packages. Many of them, if not most, are not some AI-sloped trash - they are very useful. Some package makers go above and beyond - even though vibe-coded, they still show good design decisions, proper tests, hand-written documentation. Canvas stuff most likely wouldn't be possible without LLMs.
[–] PuercoPop 1 day ago
[–] iLemming 1 day ago
Oh, I stand corrected. I was confused, I thought Divya did it experimentally first, for the Emacs Reader. Turns out minad really was the one who had the original prototype, and Divya wanted to use it in the Reader, then multi-people effort to make it work on Android, Mac and finally making it into the master branch. And yes, no LLMs - at least nobody publicly mentions any use of them.
Literally unsubscribed from /r/emacs because it was, in fact, trash.
Haven't used the canvas patch but afaik minad didn't use LLMs to write it.